# Exiting: error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 13, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912 "2023-09-13T07:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ELK\_USR1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elk_usr1/32/117207_2.png) [@ELK\_USR1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ELK_USR1)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912/1 "2023-09-13T07:28:17Z")

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**While running ./kibana setup -e getting below error**

{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2023-09-13T12:47:44.064+0530","log.origin":{"file.name":"instance/beat.go","file.line":1274},"message":"Exiting: error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing directory /apps/filebeat/kibana: failed to import Kibana index pattern: 1 error: error loading index pattern: returned 403 to import file: Unable to bulk\_create index-pattern: %!w(). Response: {"statusCode":403,"error":"Forbidden","message":"Unable to bulk\_create index-pattern"}","service.name":"filebeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}  
Exiting: error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing directory /apps/filebeat/kibana: failed to import Kibana index pattern: 1 error: error loading index pattern: returned 403 to import file: Unable to bulk\_create index-pattern: %!w(). Response: **{"statusCode":403,"error":"Forbidden","message":"Unable to bulk\_create index-pattern"}**

Filebeat , elasticsearch and kibana all are on same version.

Kindly help me in this

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912/2 "2023-09-13T18:07:34Z")

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Hi @ELK_USR1. What version of the Elastic stack are you using?

I assume you mean you are running [`./filebeat setup -e`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html#load-kibana-dashboards), not `./kibana setup -e`.

The 403 error indicates that you do not have permissions to access Kibana. In this case you may need to specify the `filebeat_internal` username and password with `-E` flags [as shown here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html#load-dashboards-logstash).

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**Author:** ![ELK\_USR1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elk_usr1/32/117207_2.png) [@ELK\_USR1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ELK_USR1)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912/3 "2023-09-14T04:16:09Z")

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Thanks @nickpeihl I am using the below version  
elasticsearch:8.8.1  
filebeat:8.8.1  
kibana:8.8.1

I am running the ./filebeat setup -e using the internal file beat user only.

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912/4 "2023-09-14T19:33:55Z")

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Hi @ELK_USR1. Is your Kibana listening on localhost:5601? Maybe you need to specify some connection parameters? For example:

`./filebeat setup -E setup.kibana.host=192.168.3.206:5601 -E setup.kibana.username=elastic -E setup.kibana.password=secret`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-import-the-dashboards-in-kibana/342912/5 "2023-10-12T19:34:16Z")

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